Worldvision Q3-2023

Worldvision Q3-2023
Dates
Final	TBD September 2023
Host
Venue	Lanxess Arena, Cologne Germany
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Egor Tarashkevich
Host broadcaster	NDR
Participants
Number of entries	29
Debuting countries	Albania Cyprus France
Returning Countries	Canada
Non-returning Countries	New Zealand
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs: the first from a professional jury, the second from viewers. As well as votes from international observers in are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.
Winning song	TBA

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 3 - 2023 will be the 4th edition of the WorldVision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Cologne, Germany, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q2-2023 contest with the song "Still Dancing" by Reve. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster NDR.

New Zealand withdrew from the competition without explanation.

Location

Lanxess Arena, host venue of the Q3-2023 contest.

The Q3-2023 contest will be held in one of the cities of Germany, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It will be the first time that Germany hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 20.000-seat Lanxess Arena.

City bidding process

On July 13, four candidate cities for the competition were announced, they were: Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund and Frankfurt. In the end, Cologne got the right to host the song contest, and the "arena" was chosen as the venue for the contest.

Format

Entries

For the Q3-2023 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than TBA 2022 are eligible. Also, a quota was introduced for compositions from the Billboard Hot-100 up to one per season and with the restriction of use for one curator no more than once in 4 seasons of participation.

Participating Countries

Countries that have expressed interest in participating

Below are the countries that have indicated their intention to conduct an internal or open selection of a representative to participate in the season:

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
	Albania
	Australia
	Canada
	China
	Croatia
	Cyprus
	Denmark
	France
	Germany
	Greece
	Hungary
	Israel
	Italy
	Japan
	Kazakhstan
	Lebanon
	Netherlands
	Norway
	Poland
	Portugal
	San Marino
	Serbia
	South Korea
	Spain
	Sweden
	Thailand
	United Kingdom
	Uzbekistan
	Vietnam

Public voting representatives of participating countries

The viewers of the participating countries could be other members of the organization or other invited persons.
Each public voting member was invited by it's country, however when the participant was not able to do so, the public voting was assigned to each country as per the most possible compatability of points with the Jury Member.

Country	Full Name & Origin	IECO Membership
Albania	TBA	Observer
Australia	TBA	Observer
Canada	TBA	Observer
Cyprus	TBA	Observer
Denmark	TBA	Observer
Germany	TBA	Observer
Greece	TBA	Observer
Hungary	TBA	Observer
Israel	TBA	Observer
Italy	TBA	Observer
Japan	TBA	Observer
Kazakhstan	TBA	Observer
Lebanon	TBA	Observer
Netherlands	TBA	Observer
Norway	TBA	Observer
Poland	TBA	Observer
Portugal	TBA	Observer
San Marino	TBA	Observer
Serbia	TBA	Observer
South Korea	TBA	Observer
Spain	TBA	Observer
Sweden	TBA	Observer
Thailand	TBA	Observer
United Kingdom	TBA	Observer
Uzbekistan	TBA	Observer
Vietnam	TBA	Observer
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